Sentence examples for play orchids from inspiring English sources

Fifteen years later, Mr. Fuentes again publicly dissected Ms. Félix's personality, along with that of another major Mexican actress, Dolores del Rio, in a play, "Orchids in the Moonlight".

"He lamented," Mr. Karnow recalled, "that he didn't have enough time to grow his orchids or play tennis".

Similar to other flowering plants, phytohormones play important roles in orchids.

He spent much of his later years tending his beloved orchids and playing bridge.

But to many Vietnamese and Americans alike, General Minh was best known for his love for raising orchids and playing tennis at the Cercle Sportif, an elite country club.

Little is known publicly about him other than he apparently raises orchids and plays golf.

Fiercely private: little known about him other than that he apparently raises orchids and plays golf.

Fiercely private: Little known about him other than that he apparently raises orchids and plays golf.

"Orchid," playing on the etymological connection between the flower and the testicles, wittily describes both at once: "Ducking under the puckered anther cap / to glide towards the stiff, / waxy sense of things".

And from then until the last days of the war in April 1975, when General Minh temporarily became president, he was the odd man out in South Vietnamese politics -- a general without troops, a politician without office, a national hero with little to do but play tennis and tend his orchids.

The mechanism of this chemical mimicry was first elucidated by Schiestl et al. [ 17], who showed that specific patterns of n-alkenes (unsaturated hydrocarbons) play a key role in orchids of the genus Ophrys (Orchideae, Orchidinae) for the attraction of male pollinators to the flowers.